Hat-box.



110.895,521. PATBNTBD 11111.11, 1909.

D. WEBER.

HAT BOX.

APPLroATIoN nun 112.11.1903..

1 "UNITED" sirairns rgnnr onirica.

DANIEL IVEBER, OF READING, PENNSYLVAYI.4

HAT-BOX.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL WEBER, citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of V'Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hat boxes, and my ob'ect is to )rovide a box in which a number of liats may e acked for shi ment, each hat being propery spaced an protected from contact with its neighbor or with the inner wall of the box.

My object has been to construct a spacing device that will be simple in construction,

- one that is easy to assemble and place in pcf-:

sition and one that will rerkuire no pasting org Iother fastening means.

o this end I provide a panel, preferabl of card board having slits therein, whereby our like panels may be .joined to form a nestor support of substant-iall rectangular outline.

Tie sup ort when assembled may be folded, or t ie panels may if preferred, be left separate, when being prepared for shipment, in either case the minimum space is required.

Having thus fully described the ob ect of my invention, the device is more fullly described in the following specification and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which 'igure 1 is a plan view of a box with my support therein. Fin'. 2 is a vertical central sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 shows the hat support folded. Fie'. 4 is a detail of one of the anels from wliic i the support ismade up.

T ie numeral 1 designates an ordinary hat box of substantially circular outline.

2 designates the hat sup ort. This support is made up of four pane s, each of which is formed with two slits 3 extending approxirmately one-half its width, while ihelongituslipping them over each other at their slits, and forming a substantially rectangular Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed. April 17, 1908.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Serial No. 427,631.

body, it is placed in the box and the ends of the anels will contact with the inner wall of the `ox. thus preventing any movement of the support therein. T he hat is placed, upside down, with the crown in the center space 5 formed by the panels, and the brim will' able that a support may be made up of three i of these panels for use m certain cases, forniig a triangular body, or that other slight iodifications may be made without depart- \nrg from the spirit of my invention, and I do nottherefore wish to limit myself to the exaet. form of device shown and described,

bu ':-\`-`a\ Iihatl claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl is 1. The combination of a circular hat box, with a hat snpport comprising four panels, each of which is formed with s its extending vapproximately one-half its width and having its longitudinal edges set at right angles to the body, said panels being adapted to be removably secured together at said slits to forni a substantially rectangular support.

2. The combination with a hat box of a support comprising a plurality of slitted panels removably joined toffether lat said slits and having their longitudinal edges set at right angles to the body.

3. A. hat support made up of four slitted panels joinedtogether at said slits, each of which `has its longitudinal edges set at right angles to the body thereof and adapted to receive the crown of a hat in the center space formed by said panels.

4. A hat support comprising a plurality of slitted panels joined together at said slits and having their longitudinal edges bent out of line with the body thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL IVEBER.

IYitnesses:

ED. A. KELLY, F. E. KREiDER. 

